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Living/leaving la vida loca: on barrios, Chicano youth and gangs.
Odisea, 2017 : Most US barrios are characterized by abundant academic failure, insufficient educational resources and high unemployment rates. In this context, the street becomes a place in which lower class Chicano kids find a space they belong to and a communal tie
Amaia Ibarraran Bigalondo
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«Guadalupe» del Teatro de la Esperanza: espejo de una realidad
Caligrama: Revista de Estudos Românicos, 2011 Resumo: O presente trabalho analisa a obra Guadalupe do grupo teatral chicano El Teatro de la Esperanza; o estudo mostra como esta obra reflete, como um espelho, a realidade social, política e cultural da comunidade chicana na sociedade norteamericana, e
Cristiano Silva de Barros
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Educazione Interculturale, 2023 This contribution proposes a reflection on the impact of decolonial theories and practices in social pedagogy courses for future professionals in educational and care work (educators, social workers, rehabilitation experts and doctors). In these areas, a
Maria Livia Alga
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Acta Neophilologica, 2015 The article deals with the main female characters that appear in Sandra Cisneros' collection of vignettes, House on Mango Street (1991). It sheds light on their lives and motives for their actions, through social criticism of Gloria Anzaldúa and the main
Špela Grum
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Joy and Unrest: Transborder College Students' Sense of Belonging at the US–México Borderlands
New Directions for Higher Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this study, we present the Transborder College Student Sense of Belonging Model, developed to understand how to create an inclusive and validating campus climate for Transborder students in postsecondary and higher education institutions along the US–México borderlands.
Vannessa Falcón Orta +3 more
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Are Pachucos Subalterns?: Crime, Liminality, and the Uncanny in Early Chicano Literature
Latin American Literary Review, 2017 This article studies the novels of Daniel Venegas, Jovita González, and Américo Paredes that they wrote between 1928-1938. Indigeneity, marriage, liminality, and volition are major themes in the works of each author, all of which analyze the state of ...
Paco Martín del Campo
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the embodied and institutional forms of marginalization experienced by Mexican deportees in Tijuana. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in clinics and social service organizations, it explores how deportees are corporeally stigmatized, denied legal recognition, and pathologized as addicts in need of coercive ...
Carlos Martinez
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Wolves, sheep and "vatos locos" : reflections of gang activity in Chicano literature
Journal of English Studies, 2004 The difficult social and economical reality of many barrios in the city of Los Angeles, and the outgrowing anger provoked by this situation in many Chicano youngsters, has resulted in the emergence of a strong gang activity.
Amaia Ibarraran Bigalondo
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Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, Volume 26, Issue 1, April 2026.Abstract Latinos have moved politically right in the last few years in United States elections, with the percentage of Latinos supporting the Republican presidential candidate at an all‐time high in the 2024 elections. The purpose of this study is to better understand this shift, particularly as it relates to the social psychology of identity in ...
Matt Lamb +2 more
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Liminalities and Displacements: The Rites of Passage to Self-Identification in Chicano Writings
Revue LISA, 2013 The aim of this paper is to explore the hermeneutics of selfhood under conditions of excruciating socio-political injustice, and to detect the rites of passage to self-conceptualization as unravelled in two Chicano literary writings: Tomás Rivera’s “…y ...
Sophia Emmanouilidou
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